Improvement in boots and shoes



Nrrnn S'riin JAMES B, FIELD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,519, dated January9, 1872.

Nature and Objects of the Intention.

cable to shoes made of soft leather,like laceleather or rawhide, anddesigned for use in dry snow or on land free from stones. Theimprovement consists in the form of the parts of the shoe which protectthe ankle, the same differing from the corresponding parts of the shoedescribed in said Ooykendales patent.

Description of the Accompany/ng Drawing.

Figure l is a view in perspective of the shoe completed and ready forwear. Fig. 2 is the lower or foot part of the shoe before the partsdesigned to protect the instep and ankle are applied. Fig. 3 is the shoewith rear piece for protecting the ankle sewed on. Fig. 4 is the frontiiap. Fig. 5 is a view of the rear ofthe shoe with the upper part sewedon.

General Description.

The shoe is constructed as follows: The material best adapted to thisshoe is lace-leather or any kind of deer-skin; but this is notessential. The lower or foot part, as in Fig. 2, is best formed of onepiece, and should be shaped to foot, and rising far enough to cover theheel, and just overreach the toes, so that the seam where the flap, Fig.4, is joined should not bear upon the side of the foot. The ap, Fig. 4,makes the front of the upper part of the shoe, and should be crimped soas to ac- Y commodate the curve of the instep and ankle, and joined tothe front part of the foot, Fig. 2, as farback as is consistent withconvenience in putting on, at the points a a.. The upper part of saidilap is joined on one side (vide Fig. l) the rear piece of the upperpart of the shoe at the seam b b, in a curved line accommodated to thecurve ofthe foot and ankle, about two 'inches from the edge at the top,and coming nearly to the edge at the bottom. At cis a slot in the seamb, through which the fastening-strap d is passed. The other side of theflap, Fig. 4, is loose from the foot upward, and folds over the backpiece on the front, where it is held by the strap e fastened upon it,which buckles with d. This iiap is new in form and in this connection,so far as I know. The back piece, Figs. 1 and 3, g, is attached to thefoot around the back between the points oi and c. On the front edge, andon the side opposite to the side that is sewed on the front flap, Fig.4, is a small iiap, f, which folds 'over the other edge and under thefront iiap, Fig. 4, thus inclosing the front opening with two iiapsfoldingin opposite directions. This flap f may be either an extension ofthe back piece g, Fig. 3, or a separate piece sewed on. The strap d isfastened upon the iiap f.

I claim- A shoe constructed with the front iiap, Fig.

4, the back piece, Figs. l and 3, g, with the flap v f upon it,substantially as herein described. JAMES B. FIELD. In presence ofWILLIAM S'rANDisH,

Jos. H. WHITMAN. (16)

